Mary in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

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Lidov, Alexi. "Miracle-Working Icons of the Mother of God." In Mother of God: Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art, edited by Maria Vassilaki, 47-57. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2000. (note color pictures at end of article)

"The Orthodox Services and their Structure." In The Festal Menaion, translated from the original Greek by Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware, 38-47, 68-75. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.

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On icons:

Belting, Hans. Likeness and Presence, A History of the Image before the Era of Art.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

John of Damascus. On the Divine Images, Three Apologies against those who attack the Divine Images. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Icons and Saints of the

Eastern Orthodox Church. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004.

Muzj, Maria Giovanna. Transfiguration, Introduction to the Contemplation of Icons.

Boston, MA: St. Paul Books and Media, 1991.

Ouspensky, Leonid and Vladimir Lossky. The Meaning of Icons. Crestwood, New York:

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1989.

Parravicini, Giovanna. Mary Mother of God, Her Life in Icons and Scripture.

Ligouri, Missouri: Ligouri/Triumph Publications, 2004.

* Vassilaki, Maria. Images of the Mother of God, Perceptions of the Theotokos in

Byzantium. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005.

Collection of essays on: early cult and representations, the theology of the

Theotokos, Female authority and devotion, Public and private cult, and

Between East and West.

On liturgy:

* Hatzidakis, Emmanuel. The Heavenly Banquet, Understanding the Divine Liturgy.

Columbia, Missouri: The Orthodox Witness, 2008.

* Kimball, Virginia. (Dissertation) Liturgical Illuminations, Discovering Received

Tradition in the Eastern Orthros of Feasts of the Theotokos. Bloomington,

Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2010. [Is available online – Dissertations, OhioLink]

Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware. The Festal Menaion. London: Faber, 1977.

* Service Books of the Byzantine Churches. December Menaion. Newton Centre, MA:

Sophia Press, 1985. (All menaia for every month of the year is available in

separate books. This is the Eastern Menaia especially suited to and used by

Eastern Rite Catholic churches. It is based on the Eastern Orthodox Menaia.)

Theological:

* Dimopoulos, George. Our Lady the Theotokos. Philadelphia, PA: West End Press,

1987.

* Daley, Brian E. On the Dormition of Mary, Early Patristic Homilies. Crestwood, NY:

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1998.

Includes the translated homilies of patristic writers on the Dormition: John of

Thessalonica, Theoteknos, Modestus, Andrew of Crete, Germanus, John of

Damascus, Theodore the Studite.

* Gabriel, George S. Mary, The Untrodden Portal of God. Ridgewood, New Jersey:

Zephyr Publishing, 2000.

* [New edition which contains section on ecumenical Mariology.] Graef, Hilda. Mary, A

History of Doctrine and Devotion. Notre Dame, Indiana: Christian Classics, Ave

Maria Press, 2009.

* Holy Apostles Convent. The Life of the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos – viewed and

treated within the framework of Sacred Scriptures, Holy Tradition, Patristics and

other ancient writings, together with the Liturgical and Iconographic Traditions

of the Holy Orthodox Church. Buena Vista, Colorado: Holy Apostles Convent

and Dormition Skete, 1989.

* Kallistos of Dioklea [Kallistos Ware].“The Sanctity and Glory of the Mother of God:

Orthodox Approaches.” In The Way, Supplement 51 (1984) [Papers of the 1984

International Congress of the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary.]

* ________. “The Mother of God in Orthodox Theology and Devotion.” In Alberic

Stackpoole, ed., Mary’s Place in Christian Dialogue. Wilton, CN: Morehouse-

Barlow Co., Inc., 1982.

*________. “The Earthly Heaven: St. John of Damascus on the Assumption of the

Theotokos.” In Mary for Earth and Heaven, Essays on Mary and Ecumenism,

edited by William McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock. Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing

Publications, 2007.

Kimball, Virginia. “The Immaculate Conception in the Ecumenical Dialogue with

Orthodoxy: How the term Theosis can inform convergence.” In Marian Studies,

Vol. IV, 2004.

______________. “The Immaculate Conception in the ecumenical dialogue with

Orthodoxy: how the term theosis an inform convergence.” In Mary for Time and

Eternity, Essays on Mary and Ecumenism, edited by William McLoughlin and Jill

Pinnock. Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing Publications, 2007.

* Lash, Archimandrite Ephrem. “Mary in Eastern Church Literature.” In Mary in

Doctrine & Devotion, edited by Alberic Stacpoole, OSB, 1990.

*Mathewes-Green, Frederica. The Lost Gospel of Mary, The Mother of Jesus in Three

Ancient Texts. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2007. Maximovitch, John., translated from Russian by Fr. Seraphim Rose. The Orthodox

Veneration of Mary, The Birthgiver of God. Platina, California: St. Herman of

Alaska Brotherhood, 1978.

*Schmemann, Alexander. The Virgin Mary, The Celebration of Fatih, Sermons, Vol. 3.

Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995.

*Staniloae, Dumitru. The Experience of God, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. Volume

One, Revelation and Knowledge of the Triune God. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross

Orthodox Press, 1998. [Translated from Greek and edited.

*_____________. The Experience of God, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. Volume Two,

The World: Creation and Deification. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox

Press, 2000. [Translated from Greek and edited.]

*Veniamin, Christopher. Mary the Mother of God, Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas.

South Canaan, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2005.